This year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award has been won by Alexis Wright for her novel Carpentaria, published by Giramondo. The Miles Franklin is widely regarded... Read more |
The Great War (Les Carlyon, Macmillan) and Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy (Peter Cochrane, MUP) are the joint winners of the inaugural $100,000 Prime... Read more |
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is extending its review into the proposed joint venture between printing companies McPherson’s and Griffin Press, citing concerns... Read more |
As it celebrates 200 years in business, John Wiley & Sons has announced record annual results for 2006-07, topping US$1 billion in global revenue for... Read more |
Books Alive ambassador for 2007 Peter FitzSimons will hit the road throughout July and August to talk about his new book, The Ballad of Les... Read more |
More that 210 publishers, printers and designers attended this year’s Galley Club Awards night in Sydney on the 15th of June, which showcased ‘excellence in... Read more |
Little Hare Books, the Australian children’s book publisher, has signed a deal with Trafalgar Square Publishing/IPG to distribute its titles in the US and Canada.... Read more |
In the forthcoming episode of ABC TV’s ‘First Tuesday Book Club’, to be screened on 3 July, the following book club titles will be announced:... Read more |
Pearson Group, which acquired Reed Publishing New Zealand (RPNZ) as part of its purchase of Harcourt Education in May, has confirmed its commitment to ‘preserve... Read more |
Neville Peat, author of the award-winning Wild Dunedin (Otago University Press), has been awarded the NZ$100,000 (A$85,000) Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers’ Fellowship. The fellowship,... Read more |
Just in Case (Meg Rosoff, Puffin) and The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon (Mini Grey, Random House) have won this year’s CILIP Carnegie... Read more |
Imperial Life in the Emerald City (Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Bloomsbury), an account of life in Baghdad’s Green Zone, has been named the 2007 winner of the... Read more |
The 2007 Cape Town Book Fair, which ran from 16 to 19 June, was ‘an unprecedented success’ according to the organisers. The second annual Cape... Read more |
Sci Fi conference goes onlineAugust’s Conflux 4 science fiction convention will be held entirely online, according to the ABC. Richard & Judy pick MortonThe Shifting... Read more |
Among the many stories added to our Around the World blog this week: Authors’ Guild tries to kill ‘dead celebrities’ bill Microsoft signs digitisation deal... Read more |
With The Secret dominating the bestseller chart for the ninth week running, it seems more and more likely that it will take something as big... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: APA Industry Forum in Melbourne on 27 June APA Industry... Read more |
Paul Hodder-Williams, chairman of Hodder & Stoughton from 1960 until his retirement in 1975, has died, aged 97. Grandson Jamie Hodder-Williams writes in Publishing News:... Read more |
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